浪人一代男｜A Ronin’s Life

This audiobook presents "A Ronin's Life" by Shugoro Yamamoto, a moving Japanese historical tale of honor, loss, and redemption.

Tsumura Sankuma is a strikingly handsome ronin known in Edo as the "Narihira Ronin."

Once born into a samurai family of the Otawara domain, he has fallen into a life of drinking and reckless wandering after his father's tragic death and the corruption of his former clan.

But when he learns that Princess Fujio, a woman bound to him by memories of childhood, is in danger because of a scheming retainer, something awakens within him.

The princess has nearly lost her sight, and her fate is about to be sealed.

A man who had abandoned the world takes up his sword once more for someone he can never forget.

In the rain before Hosenji Temple, the drunken ronin rises for one final strike.

A story of sorrowful love, lost loyalty, and the painful dignity of beginning again, this is one of Shugoro Yamamoto's deeply human samurai dramas.

山本周五郎の時代小説『浪人一代男』を朗読でお届けします。

江戸の町で「業平浪人」と呼ばれる美男の浪人、津村三九馬。

かつては太田原藩士の家に生まれながら、父の悲劇と藩の腐敗に絶望し、酒と無頼の日々に身を沈めていました。

しかし、幼き日に深い縁を結んだ不二緒姫が、奸臣の策謀により危地にあると知らされます。

しかも姫は病により、ほとんど光を失っていました。

世を捨てたはずの男が、忘れ得ぬ人のために再び刀を取る。

雨の法泉寺前、酔いどれ浪人の魂が最後に燃え上がります。

哀切な恋慕、失われた忠義、そして人として生き直すための決意。

山本周五郎ならではの人情と余韻が胸に残る、凛烈な時代小説です。